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Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-05-12T00:33:40Z
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On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 5:14 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Agreed.  How is this?
>
>         This allows efficient btree indexing of low cardinality columns.
>         Users upgrading with pg_upgrade will need to use REINDEX to make use of
>         this feature.

I still think that the release notes should say that the key is only
stored once, while TIDs that identify table rows are stored together
as an array. Everything that's helpful (or harmful) about the feature
happens as a consequence of that. This isn't hard to grasp
intuitively, and is totally in line with how things like Oracle bitmap
indexes are presented to ordinary users.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Doc: improve release notes' info about FROM UNPACKAGED feature removal.

  2. Doc: fix misstatement in v13 release notes.

  3. Doc: some more v13 release note tweaking.

  4. Doc: update v13 release notes through today, do a copy-editing pass.

  5. Doc: fill in "major enhancements" list in v13 release notes.

  6. doc: PG 13 relnotes: fix typos

  7. doc: PG 13 relnotes, update TOAST item to mention decompression

  8. pgbench: document that the default data loading is client-side

  9. psql \d: Display table where trigger is defined, if inherited

  10. Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.

  11. Introduce vacuum errcontext to display additional information.

  12. Fix lquery's behavior for consecutive '*' items.

  13. Improve the internal implementation of ereport().

  14. Add object names to partition integrity violations.

  15. Allow page lock to conflict among parallel group members.

  16. Allow relation extension lock to conflict among parallel group members.

  17. Introduce "anycompatible" family of polymorphic types.

  18. Improve checking of child pages in contrib/amcheck.

  19. doc: Add information about new SQL part SQL/MDA

  20. Added relation name in error messages for constraint checks.

  21. Avoid full scan of GIN indexes when possible

  22. Use carriage returns for data insertion logs in pgbench on terminal

  23. Use memcpy instead of a byte loop in pglz_decompress

  24. Add backtrace support for error reporting

  25. Improve pruning of a default partition

  26. Improve psql's \d output for partitioned indexes.

  27. initdb: Change authentication defaults